Conservation of Resources & Reproduction

As pointed out earlier in my blog, I’m not a scientist writing about conservation of resources, just an ordinary citizen who doesn’t want to destroy our planet by her actions. If you’ve read my previous blogs, you know how I save energy and that I derive satisfaction by living this way.

My views as a Christian dominate every decision I make. As a married person, 0ne hard question in protecting our environment is: “How many offspring do we produce?” People use resources and our population is already past a point where we can feed everyone already living on earth. My college biology professor pointed this out when I was still a student and the population has kept growing in the last decades.

I don’t think God will condemn me for using contraception–many years ago–to limit my family to two children. Two people producing the same number of children across our country would cut back substantially on our population growth. If a small percentage of our population had three children, it would make up for the adults who have only one or no children.

Some people would say, even if zero population growth is achieved in the USA, other countries would still be increasing the number of people on earth.  They’re correct; but I believe we need to start making positive changes at home, then around our community and expand from there, if possible. Will my earth-friendly deeds have a positive effect on the whole planet? Probably not. When I’m near the end of my life, a better question would be: “Did my life have a negative effect on this planet?” That’s the question that I want to answer, “No, it didn’t”.